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July 2015 Posts

HFS to reimburse all Medicaid providers that treat children (07-31)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (07-31)
Nailed it (07-31)
*** UPDATED x1 - Cullerton: "Nope" *** "Sincerely, Bruce" (07-31)
The "puppetmaster" (07-31)
Question of the day (07-31)
A few bits of common sense (07-31)
This Just In: Exelon Profits Up 22.2 Percent in 2nd Quarter (07-31)
Casino company acquires video gaming operator (07-31)
Yes, there are plenty of people to replace Kirk (07-31)
Mansion roof to be fixed (07-31)
The trend is not our friend (07-31)
*** UPDATED x1 - "Willful misreading" *** Duckworth: "I screwed up" (07-31)
Rate IllinoisGO's new online ad (07-31)
Because... Madigan (07-31)
Today's number: 76 percent (07-31)
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Good morning! (07-31)
Question of the day (07-30)
Today's number: $500 million (07-30)
Because... Madigan (07-30)
Illinois Credit Unions – Stepping Up from all Corners of the State (07-30)
Primaries can be good things (07-30)
Cullerton will call pay raise rollback bill (07-30)
Trained cops willing to be patient (07-30)
AFSCME denounces Rauner veto (07-30)
About that PPP poll (07-30)
GOP tries to clean up Gidwitz's mess (07-30)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Exelon turns up the heat a little (07-30)
Mrs. Rauner's group joins "formal complaint," request for investigation (07-30)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Tom Cullerton drops out (07-30)
Car rental vendor cuts off state (07-30)
AFSCME: Rauner memo "riddled with misinformation" (07-29)
Question of the day (07-29)
Rauner vetoes no-strike bill (07-29)
Governor's office claims it's pledged no lockout, dropped pension demand (07-29)
Dusting off the playbook (07-29)
To fair or not to fair? (07-29)
*** UPDATED x1 *** This just in... (07-29)
Over-reading the tea leaves? (07-29)
Poor winners (07-29)
A very bad case of whiplash (07-29)
Motion, not movement (07-29)
Uh-oh (07-29)
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Good morning! (07-29)
Cullerton unsure of pay hike rollback (07-28)
Madigan: "We are involved in an historic struggle" (07-28)
More lip service (07-28)
Madigan's U-Turn (07-28)
Question of the day (07-28)
*** LIVE *** Overtime session coverage (07-28)
Illinois Credit Unions – Stepping Up from all Corners of the State (07-28)
Today's map (07-28)
Madigan: "You’d better be strong or you’re going to be gone" (07-28)
*** UPDATED x1 - Madigan: "Routine" filing *** AG Madigan may appeal pension ruling to US Supreme Court (07-28)
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Good morning! (07-28)
Rauner admin won't deny plan to use National Guard in strike (07-27)
Question of the day (07-27)
A wedge that might work (07-27)
Because... Madigan (07-27)
This is what's known as "lip service" (07-27)
Reforms are having an impact (07-27)
De-escalation (07-27)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rate Mark Kirk's new online ad (07-27)
The never-ending stalemate (07-27)
Weirdest. FOIA denial. Ever. (07-27)
Today's quotable (07-27)
Rauner admin claims it wants Teamsters-like bargain with AFSCME (07-27)
It's time for the top dog to act like it (07-27)
While I was away... (07-24)
Reader comments closed for the weekend (07-24)
Rauner's turn to be triangulated (07-23)
Anti-BDS bill signed into law (07-23)
Remove your tinfoil hat, please (07-23)
AFSCME: Rauner plans to force strike or lockout, but union has no strike fund (07-23)
A truly historic year (07-23)
Rauner's GOTV gift cards (07-23)
Question of the day (07-23)
Sherman report leads to Trib story on Rauner appointments (07-23)
Rauner won't reveal who he's talking to (07-23)
Memory lane (07-23)
Candidates start to emerge (07-23)
The math doesn't add up (07-23)
Another pressure point removed (07-23)
It's a feature, not a bug (07-23)
S&P warns of another downgrade "within the next two months" (07-23)
The reviews are in (07-22)
The "solution" doesn't fit the crimes (07-22)
The story changes again (07-22)
Today's bipartisan agreement (07-22)
Question of the day (07-22)
By the numbers (07-22)
After solely blaming Madigan for impasse, Rauner bashes Cullerton (07-22)
Fitzgerald's bank does bigtime political biz (07-22)
Comptroller: Legislators will get raises (07-22)
On logrolling (07-22)
Illinois Issues to be digital only (07-22)
You've gotta be kidding me (07-22)
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Good morning! (07-22)
"Your partisanship is trumped only by your hypocrisy" (07-21)
This just in... Appellate court throws out some Blagojevich charges, but rules sentence can stand (07-21)
Looking hard to find a solution, and not looking hard (07-21)
Rauner: "My caucus" will get money every six months (07-21)
Caption contest! (07-21)
Pot blames kettle for the stove (07-21)
Rauner thinks he sees momentum (07-21)
Question of the day (07-21)
Three ideas to break the gridlock (07-21)
Read the fine print (07-21)
Duckworth whacks Kirk in online ad (07-21)
All heat, no light (07-21)
Know hope (07-21)
*** LIVE *** Overtime session coverage (07-21)
Madigan's advice, Rauner's retort (07-21)
Words to live by (07-21)
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Good morning! (07-21)
Reader comments closed until Tuesday (07-17)
$32 million to safety net hospitals (07-17)
This just in... Illinois Supreme Court denies motion for direct appeal (07-17)
Pastor Brooks to tollway board (07-17)
C'mon, man (07-17)
Sen. Kirk once again retracts a statement (07-17)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Appellate court vacates payroll TRO (07-17)
Talk amongst yourselves (07-17)
More than you probably want to know about our new state vegetable (07-17)
What's in a name? (07-17)
Rate the Chamber's new TV ad (07-17)
Money (07-17)
Get out your decoder rings (07-17)
Good morning! (07-17)
Call out the National Guard! (07-16)
Rauner eliminates EPAR (07-16)
Rev. Jackson "chagrined" about Duckworth endorsement (07-16)
*** UPDATED x1 *** DPI adviser: Sen. Kirk "awfully close" to accusing President of treason (07-16)
Question of the day (07-16)
First time for everything (07-16)
That's one heck of a burn rate (07-16)
Because... Rauner (07-16)
Because... Lisa (07-16)
Madigan backing Mautino for Auditor General (07-16)
Fightin' words (07-16)
Illinois Credit Unions continue to Step Up (07-16)
Because... Madigan (07-16)
"We wait" (07-16)
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Good morning! (07-16)
Rauner again blasts legislative pay raises (07-15)
Happy hours are here again! (07-15)
Caption contest! (07-15)
Question of the day (07-15)
Today's number: $1,745.60 (07-15)
HEAL the Budget (07-15)
Unclear on the concept (07-15)
Justice Burke says she's "surprised" and "devastated" by Statehouse rancor (07-15)
Putting human faces on line items (07-15)
Hot temps prompt LIHEAP fears (07-15)
Because... Madigan (07-15)
*** LIVE *** Overtime session coverage (07-15)
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The week's most important quote (07-14)
CoD looks for new lobster (07-14)
DCFS cuts service providers 10 percent (07-14)
*** LIVE *** Overtime session coverage (07-14)
Question of the day (07-14)
Chickens and dogs don't always mix well (07-14)
No deposit, no return (07-14)
Attacked from the left flank (07-14)
Rauner talks legal weed at Dead show (07-14)
Yeah, that'll work... Not (07-14)
Caption contest! (07-14)
Flooded Watseka institutes one-week curfew, Quincy declares state of emergency (07-14)
Illinois Credit Unions continue to Step Up (07-14)
More show business (07-14)
Two sides in the same paper (07-14)
Woods Bowman (07-14)
Today's number: 60 percent (07-14)
HEAL the Budget (07-14)
One very crazy day (07-14)
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*** UPDATED x2 - Comments opened *** AG Madigan files motion to appeal with Supreme Court (07-13)
*** UPDATED x1 - Comments opened *** Munger completes payroll processing (07-13)
Reader comments closed until Tuesday (07-10)
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Peoria announced as GOP convention host (07-10)
Madigan: Subpoenas would be "extreme" (07-10)
Question of the day (07-10)
*** UPDATED x2 *** Haz-Mat teams rush to AG's office (07-10)
By special request... (07-10)
Dem Senator says Rauner is like Madigan (07-10)
Caption contest! (07-10)
Today's quotable (07-10)
Tone it down, avoid u-turns (07-10)
Zopp tries to gin up backlash with a little GOP help (07-10)
"Good solid advice" (07-10)
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This just in... (07-09)
Meanwhile, in Opposite Land (07-09)
*** UPDATED - Rauner response *** This just in... Democrats file amendment to pay state workers for a month (07-09)
Not as bad as it once looked (07-09)
They'll get paid when it's over (07-09)
Not a dry eye in the House (07-09)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Question of the day (07-09)
Credit Unions – 100 Million Strong (07-09)
Frerichs makes $50 million available for unpaid state workers (07-09)
Real campaigns vs. not so real campaigns (07-09)
It could be a while (07-09)
The mother of all poison pills (07-09)
Democrats snubbed by workers' comp commission chair (07-09)
And the award goes to... (07-09)
*** LIVE *** Overtime session coverage (07-09)
Special stipend for state school chief (07-09)
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*** LIVE *** Overtime session coverage (07-08)
Cullerton: No (07-08)
This pretty much says it all (07-08)
Needless insinuations (07-08)
Question of the day (07-08)
"Core beliefs" (07-08)
Dueling infographics (07-08)
*** UPDATED x3 *** Winning the cycle (07-08)
Rauner explains why he didn't spare employee salaries (07-08)
*** UPDATED x1 - Kirk raised $1.35 million *** Duckworth says she raised over $1.2 million (07-08)
*** LIVE COVERAGE *** Gov. Rauner press conference (07-08)
Not yet (07-08)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Things heat up in Port Byron (07-08)
Somebody needs to pick up the darned phone (07-08)
I'm just not buying the conspiracy theories (07-08)
What's covered by the court case? (07-08)
A look at the attorney general's St. Clair County response (07-08)
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State GOP declares victory for LaHood (07-07)
Rauner claims he's already filed appeal (07-07)
*** UPDATED x3 - Durkin: Tax hike vote first - Phelon: Maybe - Brown: No *** Rauner wants continuing approp for state workers (07-07)
Question of the day (07-07)
Cruz hearts Flynn (07-07)
Rezko moved to halfway house (07-07)
*** UPDATED x8 - Munger to appeal - AG Madigan response - Rauner response - "No one getting paid" - AFSCME to appeal *** Cook County judge: Illinois can't pay state workers without a budget (07-07)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Federal judge: Pay DCFS workers (07-07)
Today's quotable (07-07)
*** UPDATED x1 - Kirk campaign calls ads "false" and "sickening" *** Kirk under fire from enviro groups (07-07)
Get off the back bench, please (07-07)
A triangulating shift (07-07)
Counting the absent legislators (07-07)
Credit Unions – 100 Million Strong (07-07)
The reddest of meat (07-07)
Today's number: 47 (07-07)
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What a long, strange weekend it was (07-06)
Unions file suit in St. Clair County (07-02)
Reader comments closed for the holiday weekend (07-02)
AG Madigan files TRO (07-02)
In re James Dimas (07-02)
Question of the day (07-02)
Weirdest. Oppo Dump. Ever. (07-02)
Big bucks reported by Zopp, Raja (07-02)
LIVE Comptroller Munger press conference coverage (07-02)
Yet another clock starts ticking down (07-02)
Hey, Cardinal fans... (07-02)
Rauner makes cheery visit to Illinois State Museum (07-02)
The Tier 2 difference (07-02)
*** UPDATED x4 *** Attorney General goes to court (07-02)
Credit Unions – Protecting Financial Futures (07-02)
GOP legislator wants "temporary, balanced budget" (07-02)
Food for thought (07-02)
The blame game (07-02)
Meanwhile, in the real world... (07-02)
When Indiana invaded Illinois (07-02)
Chicago Teacher Pension Fund explains borrowing plan (07-01)
House comes up short on temp budget (07-01)
Emanuel announces more school cuts, possible tax hikes (07-01)
Rauner, Teamsters agree to new contract (07-01)
Chicago-style accounting (07-01)
Question of the day (07-01)
Always read the fine print (07-01)
*** UPDATED x1 *** An independent mind (07-01)
*** UPDATED x1 *** Rauner uses amendatory veto to strike legislative pay raises from BIMP bill (07-01)
Um... Huh? (07-01)
When "fundamentally wrong" becomes "greater flexibility" (07-01)
Ounce joins budget coalition statement (07-01)
Nuding urges thumbs down on one-month budget (07-01)
*** LIVE *** Overtime session coverage (07-01)
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Good morning! (07-01)

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